Mary McLeod Bethune

Mary McLeod Bethune (10 July 1875-18 May 1955) was an African-American civil rights activist who was one of the co-founders of Bethune-Cookman University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Biography
Mary McLeod Bethune was born in Myseville, South Carolina, United States on 10 July 1875, and she was an early feminist and African-American activist who studied at Scotia College and the Moody Bible Institute. She founded a female teaching academy in 1904 at the age of 29, which became Bethune-Cookman College nineteen years later. She chaired the National Association of Colored Women in 1926 and, between 1935 and 1949, the National Council of Negro Women. She was also a prominent federal administrator for the youth under the New Deal Youth Administration and was close to Eleanor Roosevelt. She died in Daytona Beach in 1955 at the age of 79.